Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
THE SO WHAT
A 9M-parameter transformer training in 5 minutes on a free Colab is the new 'view source' — LLM literacy is about to spread beyond researchers to any engineer willing to read 130 lines of PyTorch. Teams that treat models as black boxes will get out-executed by those who can instrument, debug, and adapt them at this level.
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